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...succinctly, Menenhetet's life is a long series of extraordinary feats such as running over a mountain, carrying a chariot or slaying more Hittites than you could ever shake a scarab at--and crashing humiliations like getting exiled to a desert outpost and being sodomized (more than once) by the Pharaoh. These events are punctuated by various hexes and incantations, long processions to one temple or another, descriptions of statues and animals and peasants and eunuchs (many eunuchs) and life in the seraglio and the smell of different perfumes and incenses and precious stones and robes and linens...
...affected sales in this area, it has affected the requests WBCN gets from its younger audience of a station's program director to choose music and still remain commercially viable. The limited repertoire of MTV will influence what audiences want to hear on FM radio. Long an outpost of innovative rock, WZBC's McKay summarized the D. J. panel's attitude: "I don't think MTV is doing anything for innovative music. It's not taking a lot of chances...
...estimated 45,000 armed rebels opposed to the Hanoi-backed government of President Heng Samrin. Vietnamese soldiers destroyed Phnom Chat, a border village sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the guerrilla groups, then pulverized O Samach, a settlement 70 miles to the northeast that served as an outpost for the 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. During the blitz, however, the Vietnamese aimed their fire not only at the insurgents but at unarmed civilians in both Kampuchea and neighboring Thailand. Hanoi's troops ventured a mile into Thai terrain and shelled several villages and a highway...
They arrived at a guerilla outpost just as a force of 10,000 Soviet and Afghani government troops entered the area in an attempt to relieve a garrison that had been besieged by the mujahedeen for two years...
...Guatemala the Israelis have sold the government everything from antiterrorism equipment to transport planes. Army outposts in the jungle have become near replicas of Israeli army field camps. At one such outpost in Huehuetenango, Colonel Gustavo Menendez Herrera points out that his troops are using Israeli communications equipment, mortars, submachine guns, battle gear and helmets...